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Friday, March 29, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Arts and Entertainment
KU goes 'Totally Pauly' as comedian tapes show
By Nedra Beth Randolph
Kansan staff writer
Pauly Shore was destined for comedy.
"I talk about what people relate to in my comedy act," he said. "Me."
At the age of 20, the stand-up comedian already hosts his own daily show on his website at oatmeal.com and he used his first comic album, "The Future of America," March 19.
Shore, a Hollywood, Calif., native, was in Lawrence yesterday to tape a week's worth of shows for "Totaly Pauly" from various locations such as Wesco Beach and Downtown. He also did his stand-up routine during the Battle of the Bands in Hoch Auditorium last night.
KU was the first stop on a 32-city campus tour that will last until mid-March.
"Man, I like Kansas; I like middle-America. I want to marry a girl from middle-America," he said. Shore said he did not have any particular girl in mind as of yet.
Shore, wearing torn jeans, a neon green shirt and a black leather jacket, said he was excited to be back in Kansas. He performed at the Miss U.S.A. pageant in Wichita last month.
"The only difference between here and Hollywood is that down the street from me is a heavy metal club and down from you is a farm," he said.
Shore said it was cool to be in Lawrence when KU was in the NCAA Basketball Final Four championship.
"It seems to be a happening thing around here," he said. "Everyone's
'Other comedians have an attitude, but people like a different style. I'm the same off-stage as I am on. I'm a nice guy.'
- Pauly Shore comedian
into it. It's pretty cool. Good luck on the Final Four thing."
Shore said his comedy act differed from other popular comedic acts.
"Other comedians have an attitude, but people like a different style," he said. "I'm the same offstage as I am on. I'm a nice guy."
Shore said talent is just part of what it takes to be a funny comedian. A good comic is a clean comic to Shore.
"You don't have to be lewd to be funny." he said.
He also is adamant about saying no to drugs.
Shore's long, dark, curly hair was wind-blown as he walked into Hoch Auditorium yesterday to tape segments for his show.
Everywhere he went on campus with his swaying saunter, he had a following of at least 20 loyal fans. Some asked for his autograph on Final T-shirts, and others just wanted to touch him.
Bob Akin, Prairie Village sophomore, said he was missing his African Literature class to see Shore.
"I got to talk to my man, the Weasel," he said with excitement. "I got all shakty when I met him. I told him that I kicked my class just to meet you."
Akin said he planned to follow Shore around town all day.
The only thing Shore said he did not like about being famous was that he no longer had time alone. At 3 a.m. Wednesday, Shore was awakened by several zealous female fans pounding at the door of his hotel room.
"I told them, 'Look, you have to leave' and they got mad at me," he said. "They stood at the end of my bed arguing with me.
Shore, who has been doing stand-up comedy for almost six years, said comedy had been around him his entire life.
His parents own Comedy Stores in San Diego, Las Vegas, and Hollywood. His father, comedian Sammy Wagner, was the company's opening act in the 1960s and 1970s.
"I grew up at the comedy store," he said.
Shore said his parents were not particularly supportive when he decided to go into comedy. He advises KU students to follow what they think is right, not what their parents tell them to do.
"If you want to do something in life that will make you happy, man, joy."
"The Totally Pauly" shows that we will watch Saturday, yesterday will sit on MTV August 12.
Shore left after Battle of the Bands he will perform at the Arcadia Theater.
MTV comedian Pauly Shore takes a break from taping segments for his show, "Totally Pauly."
Julie Jacobson/KANSAN
CALENDAR
Friday
*Inge Theatre* “Pot-Pourri Productions” “The Colored Museum” 8 p.m. Inge Theatre, Murphy Hall, tickets at Murphy Hall Box Office
■ "The Business of Murder," 18 p.m.
Lawrence Community Theatre, 1501 New Hampshire St., call 843-7469 for ticket reservations.
Billy Goat and The Urge, 9:30 p.m.
The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
$4.
Soul Masters, 9:30 p.m. The Jazz-
house, 926% Massachusetts St, $1
Ricky Dean Sinatra, 9:30 p.m., The Mad Hatter, 704 New Hampshire St., $2 before 10 p.m.
"The Business of Murder," 2:30 and 8 p.m., Lawrence Community Theatre, 1501 New Hampshire St., call 643-7469 for ticket information.
Saturday
■ Love Squad and Poetic Justice, 9:30 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. $4.
Soul Masters, 9:30 p.m. The Jazz
Masters, 9:26% Massachusetts St. $3.
Jazz Masters, 9:26% Massachusetts St. $3.
Monday
**Salty Iguanas, 9:30 p.m., The Mad Hatter, 704 New Hampshire St., $2 before 10 p.m.**
Student Art Exhibit. works of eight KU students, through April 13, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. SUA Gilen. SUA
Open Mike, 9:30 p.m., The Bottleneck 737 New Hampshire St. free
Tuesday
"Taxi Driver"; SUA Movie, 7 p.m.
Woolfitt Audition; Kansas Union, $2
Monterey Jack, 9:30 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampstead St., $13
'Pirates of Penzance' coming to Murphy Hall
Wednesday
Thursday
By Joe Gose Kansan staff writer
"Taxi Driver," SUA Movie, 7 p.m.
Woodstock Auditorium, Kansas Union, 2
Opera "The Pirates of Penzance" 8
Phoenix High School, Phoenix Hall,
Hall students at USA Office.
Kansan staff writer
The KU production of "Pirates of Penance," which will open Wednesday in Murphy Hall's Crafton-Preyer Theatre, is no ordinary pirate tale.
The operetta, by W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, centers on Fredric, an 8-year-old boy who is given the role of a pirate and his ensuing adventures.
"Taxi Driver," SUA Movie, 7 p.m.
Wooldraft Auctiontion, Kansas Union, $2
"Opera" The Pirates of Penzance, 8
p.m. Wooldcraft Auctiontion, Urbana
Hall, student tickets at SUA University.
When he is 21, Frederic finally is introduced to women and falls in love with one. But tragedy befalls him when he finds out he was born in a
Biohazard and Joe Worker, 9:30 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. $4.
"The pirates with whom I am apprenticed are not exactly bright," said Fredric Scheff, North Kingstown, R.I., graduate student who plays Fredric. "They're very kind people as far as pirates go.
leap year and is actually only 5 years old.
"They never attack weak people. They never molest orphans. They leave the underprivileged alone."
Scheff said the secret of the operet-
ta has humor relied on the serious way
the operator works.
makes it even funnier is how sincerely the people in the scene believe what they are doing," he said. "The more sincere you are, the funnier it makes."
Poul Hough, director of the operetta, said that he wanted the KU production to be as hilarious as the musical, which premiered in New York.
"The show was designed as popular entertainment. It was kind of like 'Monty Python' or the "Saturday Night Live" of its time."
actors playing roles. The theatricality of the piece is what makes it so much fun.
Show times for the operetta are 8 p.m., April 3, 4, 6 and 7. Tickets are available at the Murphy Hall Box Office, and student tickets also can be purchased at the SUA in the Kansas Union. The cost is $10 for the public and $5 for KU students. All seats are reserved.
The situation is funny, and what
"This is a highly improvisational and very theatrical production with a lot of funny stuff," said Hough, a 1967 UK graduate. "We never forget we are on a stage with
'New Jack City' shows morose view of drug scene
By Kristine Curley
Special to the Kansan
Drug hotels where you pay your money and receive your drugs through a slot in the wall?
This is the drug scene that first-time major motion picture director Mario Van Pebels has created in the anti-drug movie, "New Jack City."
It is evident from the start that the movie's main message is that drugs kill. Rapper Ice-T plays Scotty, a young drug-addicted man, and help put an end to the flow of
drugs. His equally thrill-seeking partner, Peretti, is stochastic played by Judd Nelson. The two join forces and go on an epic adventure as the empire built by mob ruler Nino Brown.
bother to check out.
Brown, played by Wesley Snipes,
creates a pseudo-drug community
complete with identification cards
and computers. His new form of
crack house is now more of a crack
hotel whose patrons often do not
Many people think movies such as these only lead to a glorification of the crack problem, not a condensation of it. Van Peebles, however, paints a pretty morse picture of the crack problem by modeling reality of crack-cocaine users.
Van Peebles is careful to steer clear of much of the racial stereotypes that often leads to an unfocused and misdirected story. Although the dialogue is sometimes trite, when Peretti tells Scotty, "It's not a Black
thing, it's not a white thing. It's a death thing, Van Peebles crosses a universal threshold with his creation and the technical society of greed and addiction.
A riveting soundtrack with artists Ice-T, Keith Sweat, Color Me Bad and 2 Live Crow is piped throughout the movie in careful arrangement. Coupled with the unique casting of Kevin Bacon as a drug lord, led by Snipes, "New Jack City" proves effective, even with its tidally delivered ending.